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University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1978 The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 8-25-1978 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 082, No 6, 8/ 25/1978 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1978 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 082, No 6, 8/25/1978." 82, 6 (1978). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1978/85 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1978 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. New Mexico CETAjobs ·/ DAILY up in the air ATTENTION Friday, August 25,1978 Uy ANNA POOLE The future of 55 employees on the UNM campus whose positions arc Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) are uncertain due to Traffic accidents mount mismanagement of funds at the city level. Phillip Alarid, director of UNM's personnel office, said the University "aoesn't know" what it will do .about the problems arising frotn CETA Freshmen and Sophomores!!! budget deficits program or what will happen to the 55 employees hired under the program. The CETA office, administered through the mayor's office, reported Sbc~~hospitalized Wednesday a deficit of $915,000 if the program continued through Sep tember 30, the end of the fiscal year. The CET A main office reported enough uncommitted funds to reduce ARE YOU INTERESTED IN HEAVY the cleficit to $652,000. CET A reported funds will reduce deficit FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND Before Mayor Rusk's press conference Wednesday, CETA regional director, William Harris called Rusk and announced that $350,000 in emergency funds would be sent to Albuquerque to cover part of the deficit. This reduced the deficit to $302,000. A GUARANTEED GOOD JOB WHEN The budget problems arose from agencies failing to include cost-of· living raises and merit salary increases into their projected budgets, Rusk said. YOU GRADUATE?? Lela Martinze, a clerical specialist IV in the CETA program who works at Student Financial Aids, has five children and is divorced. Martinze said she received a call from UNM's personnel office Wed· nesday afternoon. "Personnel told me there would be a new flash and not to panic, "I don't know what to think. They might just tell me this afternoon I don't have a job tomorrow. Personnel said not to panic and others in the WE HAVE A SCHOLARSHIP office say there is no money." Alarid said after his office received word of the problem, his office contacted all 55 employees and told them •'not to panic. A month is a long time to start planning." I PROGRAM THAT IS A Personnel told clerk not to panic I: tl Alarid said UNM plans hinge on whether the $350,000 in emergency ' funds will be distributed proportionally or not. j An 8 a.m. meeting with 'President Davis, Vice President for Finance GOOD DEAL FISHER PHOTO ! John Perovich and Alarid was set for today. CETA is a federally funded program to relieve unemployment. "The This auto accident, at the corner of Yale and Central, is one of many that occur in the Federal government· sends money to states and cities that qualify. In University area Albuquerque the money is channelled through the mayor'~ office," Alarid Six people were hospitalized as Police officer Tim Kline, who is wants to spend the week in the said. the result of 15 separate traffic assigned to the area. hospital, or a day at traffic court," Alarid. said the city administers the program, UNM requests positions, accidents in the university area this Kline said "unsafe movement" he said. the city allocates them and the employee is treated like a UNM employee. week, police said. "Mopeds, on the part of drivers and riders "Our main problem is one of The University cannot afford to put the CETA empoyuees on th.e UNM bicycles and drivers who are new to were the reason for most of the manpower," said Kline. "If we payroll, Alarid said. FOR THOSE SELECTED: and unfamiliar with the university accidents. have to continue concentrating on One alternative, Alarid said., is to reduce the employees workmg time to area were the cause of most of the The officer urged extra caution these traffic snarls, we can't answer half·days. "Another alternative is to recover through a hiring freeze and accidents,'' said Albuquerque by all university drivers. "Nobody calls in other areas." divert that money into a pool to finance CETA for a month" •·· FULL TUITION AND FEES PAID Alarid said the city administers the program, UNM requests positions, the city allocates them and the employee is treated like a UNM employee .. • ··· ALL TEXTBOOKS PROVIDED The University cannot afford to put the CETA employees on the UNM ··· $100 PER MONTH TAX FREE DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR New library security works payroll, Afarid said. SUMMER ACTIVITIES WITH PAY the mayor's office channeled CETA funds ''!j ( By DEBBIE LEVY One alternative, Alarid said, is to reduce the employee's Working time to ,, If any of you clever little thieves half-days. "Another alternative is to recover through a hiring freeze and ;,., are planning to steal a book or two divert that money into a pool to finance CETAfor amonth." ' from any of UNM's libraries, CETA workers are in many positions at UNM Alarid said. • 'They are at AND WHEN YOU GRADUATE 1'' ' ~ 1 forget it. The new security book the physical plant, in clerical .POSitions and even in some professional system works. positions." . , The effectiveness of the security Alarid said it would be difficult to replace CETA employees with work •·· G\;ARANTEED EMPLOYMENT WITH EXCELLENT system was proven Wednesday study students. "It would take a good number of work-study students to SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFITS ' i morning at the check-out area of replace one full-time worker and the continuity is lost." , . , I Zimmerman library. A LOBO The impact, if all CETA employees were lost, Aland said, would be I'.1· ···YOUR CHOICE OF SEVERAL OCCUPATIONAL FIELDS· reporter hid a library copy of Griffie "great" on those offices with CETA workers. INCLUDING FLIGHT OR NUCLEAR POWER TRAINING PI arid Punishment in her purse and Once the problems facing CETA employees during September are over, tried to exit through the security Alarid said the University must decide what is to be done for the next fiscal ···INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL, ADVENTURE,:AND NUMEROUS area. When she reached the "exit" year. OTHER BENEFITS INCLUDING ADVANCED EDUCATION bar, the bar did not release, a bell "We don't know what the budget will be for the next fiscal year. We sounded, and she could not pass have one month to Work on that solution, The bill is not out of Congress OPPORTUNITIES through. The library staff member Continued on page 3 manning the security check·out -asked the reporter to back up and try leaving through the adjoining 1 exit bar. When this mechanism UNM student vet prevented her from exiting also, the staff member asked her to "return" to the book check out desk and population declines I have the book "re-desensitized." AN UNCONVENTIO-NAL CHALLENGE '' The book had never been either One qf the last organizations aftedanuary 1977 were not eligible checked out or desensitized. from the 1960's is slowly dying out. for di Bill bene!its. After that date, The new system, wllich was . The number of student Veterans veterans call go to school onder a GET STARTED IN THE installed last week, cost an who are going to school under the "matching funds" program, estimated $22,000, based 011 figures Gl Bill peaked in 1974 with 2500 at Sherman said. Under the Con" UNIVERSIJY OF NEW MEXICO submitted by the 3·M Company, UNM. This year there are 1500; tributary Educational Assistance who furnished the detection system, said Joel Sherman, veteran's Program, servic~men invest part of FIND said University architect Van Darn education representative. their paycheck into the fund each CAN NAVY and MARINE CO~PS month. When they get out, the Hooker. "We are seeing a steady drop off ROTC OUT Dean of Library Services Paul government matches that amount YOU in enrollment figures,'' Sherman and the savings are used toward Vassallo said that although not all said. "Unless the GJ Bill is rein• QUALIFY NOW the books in all campus libraries education, Sherman said. stituted by 1985, student vets will The veteran's representative said, ??? Ill have been sensitized, a "Vast number about 100 or 200." • • • ••• majority'' of the total 800,000 "The only drawback is that the Gl books have been treated with a "There will still be Gl BUI must plan ahead for school While he STOP BY 720 YALE, NE (ON CAMPUS) OR special sensitizing tape. Vassallo student veterans for another is in the military.'' CALL 277-3744 or 277·3745 said the process of treating the decade," Sherman ·said. The So far there have not been any books has taken two years but that FISHER PHOTO wartime education program may veterans registered at UNM under all new materials received by the LOBO reporter Ann8 Poole surreptitiously puts a copy of not be used·after 1989. the "matching (unds;; program, Persons who entered the military Sherman said. ContlnulJd on page 3 Clime IJIJd Punishment into her purse. :A•·' Page 2, New Mexico Dnily lOBO, Augu\125, 1978 Voi.B3 No.6 Page 3, New Mexico Daily LOBO, August 25, 1978 •• • C ETA Continued from pogo 1 • • • Library Kim enters guilty plea and it may not be out by October l, the beginning of the new fiscal year '' Con tlnuod frQm pa9o 1 Alarid said.